Thursday, April 22, 2010

Face Painting, or, How to Make a 4 year old Happy

Ava, like a lot of other four year old girls, is infatuated with fairies and princesses. Her BFF and her have spent countless hours the last few months playing pretend princess and fairy.

The other day I remembered I had a pretty cool book on how to draw them.

Ava suggested face painting...and you would have thought I had told them they could have hot fudge sundaes for dinner:)

I used regular old acrylic paint (non-toxic) and they were tickled pink! (By the way, I consider myself to be a pretty good painter, but face painting is a whole different story! I'm going to have to use much smaller brushes next time. Fortunately, they are not art critics. ;)

Also, if you decide to do it with your kids, and you take them outside for a few pictures, you may want to clean up first...

...or a certain younger sibling may help himself. Not that I would let that happen or anything.

Oh how much fun is that? Lots!!! I've had a few face paintings myself as an adult. The granddaughters always insisits it'm my turn next. LOve the little "Sunflower" at the end (last pic). He just wanted to play too!! Cute smile. Your daughter and her BFF looked great. Oh to be a child again, with carefree days of princesses and fairies. Ah but we can dream them up in our own play time now can't we. Just like you did with these sweet children.Happy Earth Day,Tess

Adorable! That first photo is an award winner. I was paid $50/hr once to paint kids faces at a work picnic. Can you imagine someone paying me that much? To paint faces? It was a blast! The squirmy ones (almost all of them?) are tough, though.

What an awesome way to play with art! They are precious. You are a creative mom (and fun too... if I hadn't caught this from the face-painting idea in the first place; I could surely tell by the last sunny smile high-lighted in yellow).